Nik Clear

Gran Bretagna / Great Britain

Interventi Metropolitani - Urban Intervention

 
"Scritti Politti". L’intervento proposto dalla General Lighting and Power utilizza i graffiti che sono sparsi per tutta la città di Torino e li ricontestualizza all’interno delle vetrine dei negozi. Il titolo dell’opera, "Scritti Politti", viene inteso non solo come un richiamo al suo significato originario inerente ai graffiti politici ma è anche un riferimento intenzionale all’omonimo gruppo pop degli anni ’80 . Il leader del gruppo Green Gartside scriveva delle canzoni con dei riferimenti espliciti al post-strutturalismo, rifacendosi specialmente al lavoro di Jacques Derrida.
Direttori. Nic Clear, Jonny Halifax, Ezra Holland, Danny Vaia. CoNCORSI DI ARCHITETTURA. "Living in the City", Londra; "Sutton Walk", South Bank, Londra (con Congo Blue); "Urban Splash", Manchester (con URL); "Greenwich Meridian", Times Newspapers; "XXX-Mas Lights", RIBA Journal Museum of London; "Refurbishment of the Alterations to a Suburban House", Bart-House, UCL, Londra. MOSTRE. 1997: "Aspirational Living", Oxo Tower (a cura di Nic Clear); "A1 Art", Islington International Festival; "Moongarden", RIBA London Project Room.

"Scritti Politti". The proposed intervention by General Lighting and Power utilises the ‘graffiti’ that is spread across the whole of Turin and re-contextualises it within the shop windows. The title "Scritti Politti" is intended to not only to be a link to its original meaning, referring to political graffiti, but is consciously a reference to the 1980’s pop group of the same name. The leader of the band Green Gartside wrote pop songs with explicit references to post-structuralism especially the work of Jacques Derrida.
Directors. Nic Clear, Jonny Halifax, Ezra Holland, Danny Vaia. ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS. "Living in the City", London; "Sutton Walk", South Bank, London (with Congo Blue); "Urban Splash", Competition Entry, (with URL), competition organized by the Manchester "Greenwich Meridian"; Times Newspapers; "XXX-Mas Lights", invited Competition, RIBA Journal Museum of London; "Refurbishment of the Alterations to a Suburban House", Bart-House, invited Competition, UCL, London. EXHIBITIONS. 1997, "Aspirational Living", Oxo Tower (curated by Nic Clear); "A1 Art", Islington International Festival; "Moongarden", RIBA London Project Room.